SCHLIPF - A POPULAR LECTURE OF THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE with 314 figures in the text Published 1879.

SCHLIPF Johann Adam - A POPULAR LECTURE OF THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE.

A work crowned with a competition prize. Translated from the eighth German edition by Wladyslaw Noskowski. With 314 figures in the text.

Printed and owned by B. Cassius, Warsaw 1879. Dimensions: 24x16,5cm; pages 643, binding leather-embossed(considerable abrasions). Dampstains, ownership signature inside.

A comprehensive and richly illustrated handbook of farming. Discusses types of soils, management of wild areas, types of tools, fertilizers, cultivation of crops, meadows, vines, fruit farming, animal husbandry, horses, pigs, beekeeping.

Johann Adam Schlipf (1796-1861) - a German teacher of agriculture, his most famous work - "Populares Handbuch der Landwirthschaft" published in 1840 - has been reprinted many times (without revision until 1969) and translated into many languages.